Awards & Honors
The awards that researchers at the University of Basel receive for their scientific work, as well as their appointments to numerous institutions, are testimony to their outstanding commitment to science and society.
The awards that researchers at the University of Basel receive for their scientific work, as well as their appointments to numerous institutions, are testimony to their outstanding commitment to science and society.
In recognition of his lifetime of research achievement in materials science, Daniel Loss, Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Basel, will be awarded the Jan Czochralski Award 2024 from the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS).
Botond Roska and José-Alain Sahel have been awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine for their pioneering work on restoring vision to blind patients using optogenetic therapy.
Professor Ellen Fritsche, adjunct professor of toxicology at the University of Basel and director of the Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, was awarded this year's Poulsson Prize by the Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
A team from the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at the University of Basel was honored with the Influential Paper Award 2024 at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS).
The online platform “transcriptiones”, developed at the University of Basel, has won the Swiss Reproducibility Award 2024 in the team award category. The platform enables researchers to share painstakingly prepared transcriptions.
Psychologist and sleep researcher Dr. Christine Blume has been awarded the Biopsychology 2024 Research Prize by the Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology Section of the German Psychological Society.
The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has elected Prof. Dirk Bumannn as a new member. The infection biologist is a research group leader at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, and also one of the directors of the NCCR AntiResist. Election to the ranks of the prestigious academy Leopoldina is a high honor for scientists.
This year’s Otto Naegeli Prize for Medical Research goes to Basel researcher Professor Mirjam Christ-Crain. The award, which is endowed with CHF 200,000, is considered one of Switzerland’s most important scientific prizes and enjoys high international recognition.
The Pfizer Research Prize is considered one of the best-known awards for medical research in Switzerland. This year, the award is being given to three young scientists at the Basel research location.
